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Weird dashlights issue and then BOOM
« on: June 19, 2016, 03:29:44 PM »
I live in Florida and we have a lot of rain and humidity here.   I bring that up because I thought I just had a bad wire....now I don't know what the F word is going on. 

My battery light came on and off intermittently over two days last week.  I replaced my battery back in Jan 2015, so it should not be an issue.  Then it went off and stayed off.  I chalked it up to a bad or loose wire.   

Then the bike died on me Friday, it would not crank or turn over, but I had lights and a dashboard. 

I finally get a chance to look at it today and at first I got nothing.   Then all the lights on the dashboard blink at me a few times.  I still got nothing.  They blink on and off again, then powers right up.   

??????   The owners manual is no help and I can't find anything on the net.


Any clues?   I'm taking it out now to see how she runs and see if this continues.   
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Re: Weird dashlights issue and then BOOM
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2016, 04:59:51 PM »
Bad and/or intermittent contact in either a connector or ground.

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Re: Weird dashlights issue and then BOOM
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2016, 05:50:37 PM »
Have you put a voltmeter on the battery to see what the voltage is?
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Re: Weird dashlights issue and then BOOM
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2016, 02:01:34 AM »
Have you put a voltmeter on the battery to see what the voltage is?

Don't have one but I'm thinking it's a bad ground. 
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